Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...gy from the wind farms are provided to the local electric grid and sold to the local utility, while Google retains the renewable energy certificates (RECs) and applies them to energy used at their data cent......asily and inexpensively offsetting emissions from data center electricity use. Leading IT companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell are among the top purchasers of RECs. In fact, Intel is top green power purchaser in ... (Read Full Article)

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iCloud Revamp May Introduce Social Features

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 15 2012) Fuel Cell

... “We note Apple blogs have speculated that MacBooks may be updated with a slimmer body style. Also, Intel’s most recent generation of processors, Ivy Bridge, is set to be introduced during the quarter.” Th......m expects Apple to sell 6.3 million iPods during the June quarter and 4.5 million Macs. Do you know Google’s secrets? To find out, take our quiz. (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...Cutting costs in IT has huge effects on the bottom line. For example, Facebook spent 16 percent and Google both spent about 9 percent of its revenue on infrastructure and capital expenditures in 2011.For de......gn where vendors can try to create value above and beyond the Open Compute standard, to the AMD and Intel motherboards that were created with the financial services industry, it seems like vendors can ... (Read Full Article)

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It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Wind , Cloud Computing

...ll Weihl, manager of energy efficiency and sustainability at Facebook and the former energy czar at Google, moderated the panel that also featured the head of sustainability for Rackspace; someone building ......d of sustainability for Rackspace; someone building an HPC cluster for oil company BP; someone from Intel; and Jonathan Koomey, a consultant and energy-efficiency expert. While we are entering the age of 1... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 26 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ve alternately held up the world’s largest IT companies and data center operators, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, for public applause or chastisement based on their energy usage, energy policies and......ave now firmly embarked on. Entire countries, such as Iceland, as well IT industry leaders, such as Intel, are cases in point. The green data center market It’s estimated that data centers consume around... (Read Full Article)

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As Facebook grows, so do its data center needs

Explore GigaOM (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... get it done. * It is the first major deployment of Open Compute Project web servers that are using Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors. * Facebook believes that Forest City, like its first data center in Pri......asurement for the entire facility of 1.06 to 1.08. (Related: Whose data centers are more efficient: Google’s or Facebook’s?) * The new facility is using the Open Compute Project’s outdoor-air cooling ... (Read Full Article)

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Verizon shows off OpenFlow’s benefits for carriers

Explore GigaOM (Apr 17 2012) Networking

Verizon has created a partnership with Intel, HP and networking company Adara to help test and understand the benefits that OpenFlow and softwar......ounts of data through its network and from one data center to another, which sounds similar to what Google is also doing with OpenFlow. Verizon shows off OpenFlow’s benefits for carriers By Stacey Higginbot... (Read Full Article)

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Google, HP Raise Data-Center PUE Bar

Explore Network Computing (Apr 6 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ption, servers, storage , networking equipment, lights, cooling equipment, air circulation systems, Google, HP, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, AMD Channel: Servers & Storage, Networking & Mgmt, Data Center, Green Computing Running rows and... (Read Full Article)

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Can Data Centers Can Make the Grid Greener?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 15 2012) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing

...ny markets,” Greenpeace wrote in a 2011 report on cloud computing and energy. “IT companies such as Google and Intel have demonstrated increasing interest in making direct clean energy investments, rather than purcha... (Read Full Article)

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Low power is the new black for data centers

Explore GigaOM (Mar 6 2012) Construction , Servers

...ve another key acquisition last week. AMD, a company that has fought a decades-long losing war with Intel over building the best CPU, acquired low-power server maker SeaMicro in a move that says a lot abou......d so the SeaMicro deal is one more step toward transferring the value, which an end customer like a Google or a Facebook needs, to a company like AMD and away from the OEMs ... (Read Full Article)

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Digital route forward

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Feb 9 2012)

...ly one of the most vibrant digital clusters in Europe. In front of us, construction is advancing on Google's €75m data centre. Down the road is Microsoft's €1bn data centre that serves its cloud businesses ......In terms of power infrastructure to support major data centres and manufacturing operations such as Intel or EMC, Mortell says Ireland is just about competitive at the moment. "Paris is using nuclear energ... (Read Full Article)

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Don’t call it a wimpy node: SeaMicro rethinks the server for webscale

Explore GigaOM (Jan 31 2012) Servers

...ion at their pace. But now the density, power and performance demands of companies like Facebook, Google and others are driving vendors in the chip and server industry to react. And so far, SeaMicro has r......ors — delivering four different iterations of its server in response to market demand in 18 months. Intel’s willingness to listen to and learn from SeaMicro, and its gradual realization that the microserve... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories: Week of Jan. 28

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 28 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling

...infrastructure in the last quarter of 2011, recording capital expenditures (CapEx) of $951 million. Google’s CapEx spending was about $271 million more than in the third quarter of 2011, when it invested $6......ill acquire a controlling stake in Netmagic Solutions, a leading managed hosting provider in India. Intel: Emerging Player in DCIM Ecosystem – While known primarily for processors, Intel’s innovation extends to middleware like Data Center Manager ... (Read Full Article)

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Smart lights, bright data center

Explore ITworld (Jan 25 2012) Construction

...floppy disks jimlynch answers Running Windows programmes on i mac USASunrise_tw126796899 shared How Google's privacy policy changes will affect Android on Twitter LuisGonzalez_LinkedjNAW3a has just joined I......ogies on POWER7 processor-based server platforms against VMware vSphere 4.1 update 11 on comparable Intel x86 platforms. In this webcast learn how Oracle's new SPARC T4 servers and SPARC Supercluster deliv... (Read Full Article)

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2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...at Greenhills Industrial Estate in Dublin 24 to expand its cloud footprint in Europe. In September, Google revealed it will invest €75m in a new data centre that will generate 30 full-time and 200 construct...... and Ireland has been at the cusp of this revolution ever since Apple came to Cork in the 1980s and Intel began making chips to power the PC revolution in the 1990s. In recent weeks ... (Read Full Article)

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Bouncing data would speed up data center

Explore Technology Review (Dec 20 2011)

Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to be moved b......sible in a packed data center. Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Intel's labs in Oregon have come up with a clever solution: bouncing wireless signals off the ceiling, wh... (Read Full Article)

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Google begins construction of Hong Kong data center

Explore zdnetasia.com (Dec 8 2011) Power and Cooling

Google has kicked off the construction of its first Asian data center in Hong Kong which is expected be up...... special read. I definitely savored every little bit of it. He... Nick, Nice article. I work inside Intel IT and we have approached our cloud strategy similar to you - what does our business need and ho...... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 23 2011) Servers

...centre in Prineville in Oregon. The project has since enrolled an impressive array of members, from Intel, Asus and Rackspace to Mellanox, Huawei and Red Hat, not to mention a few research and education in......pecifications in April was a significant change for an industry where other businesses, such as Google and Amazon, have closely guarded their data centre specs, using them instead as a competitive advan... (Read Full Article)

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why Moonshot matters - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 6 2011)

...dly versions of the ARM processor produced by Calxeda, instead of more traditional fare from AMD or Intel. The move towards lower power processors - and lots of them - is interesting. It’s a move we’ve b...... delivering web services, social media and simple content delivery applications”. In other words, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, all the big players where the data center action is. If Moonshot hits i... (Read Full Article)

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Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...te Summit in New York featured appearances from executives for some of the sector’s leading names – Intel, Dell, Amazon, Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center though...... Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought leaders from Google, Microsoft, Rackspace and many other companies with large data center operations. That turnout is n... (Read Full Article)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...ent. If you're still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by t......o is that the OCP systems only catch on with the "create your own universe" builders like Facebook, Google and Amazon. He says that the truth is "probably in the middle," depending on whether enough ... (Read Full Article)

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Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud

Explore Scientific American Blog Network (Oct 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...months: The conclusion, backed up by six decades of data, mirrors Moore’s law, the observation from Intel founder Gordon Moore that computer processing power doubles about every 18 months. But the power-co......increasingly relying on data centers for many services (Netflix streaming, Apple iCloud, Facebook, Google search, etc.), how important is energy efficiency in a data center, and have there been any major b... (Read Full Article)

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Green Business: Inside Intel With Lorie Wigle

Explore EarthTechling (Sep 30 2011) Wind

...so the President of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI). CSCI is a joint venture between Intel and Google that brings major tech giants to the table to help make the entire computing environment and data c... (Read Full Article)

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Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

Explore zdnetasia.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook and Google are leading the charge toward more innovative datacenter designs, with a focus on optimizing existi......ss as a Competitive Advantage. I so agree with this article. In fact, in January 2011 at our annual Intel IT Leadership Summit... Definitely mobile social networking is a buzz word in Asia at the moment. B... (Read Full Article)

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